"The Case that Would Not Rest"by Andrew Hacker (excerpt)(A review of Conspiracy by Anthony Summers)

Dr. Grover B. Proctor, Jr.SOURCE DOCUMENT COLLECTION EDITOR

Editor's Note: One of the few reviews of Anthony Summers' book Conspiracy which noted Ssummers' mention of The Raleigh Call came in Andrew Hacker's extended, and generally positive, review published in The New York Review of Books. The publication date for this review, July 17, 1980, was coincidentally the same date as my first article on The Raleigh Call published in Spectator magazine. -- G.Proctor

excerpt from"The Case That Would Not Rest" by Andrew HackerThe New York Review of Books
July 17, 1980
a review of Conspiracy by Anthony Summers (1980, McGraw-Hill)

However Summers found another connection which, even if circumstantial, has serious implications. While in the Dallas jail, Oswald was allowed two telephone calls, one of which went to the house where his wife was staying. The other was to a number in Area Code 919, which covers the eastern half of North Carolina. Neither his address book nor any other inquiries have shown that Oswald had contact with anyone in that region. However as it happened, his freedom to make calls was not wholly unrestricted. Two men with federal credentials stationed themselves by the switchboard and, on hearing the request for the 919 number, instructed the operator to tell Oswald that the call could not get through. Who might Oswald have been calling in his final hour of need? The only hint comes from Victor Marchetti, who recollected to Summers that Naval Intelligence had a program at Nags Head, North Carolina, for selected sailors and marines, "who were made to appear disenchanted, poor, American youths who had become turned off and wanted to see what communism was all about."

Dr. Grover B. Proctor, Jr. is a historian and former university Dean who is widely acknowledged as an expert on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He has published numerous articles, lectured extensively, and has frequently been consulted by print and broadcast media.
While most of his work comprises analysis and interpretation of the assassination research phenomenon, he broke new ground in the investigation in the early 1980's with his work on Lee Harvey Oswald's alleged telephone call from the Dallas jail to a former military counterintelligence agent in Raleigh, N.C.

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